Despite the on-going environmental and human disasters brought by the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear reactors meltdown, the Japanese government is hell-bent on continuing its export of what has become questionable nuclear power generation technologies.

Fellows of the Asian Public Intellectuals programme and Sociologists without Borders have urged the Malaysian government to abandon its plans to build nuclear power plants and to put a stop to the ongoing construction of a rare earth refinery plant in Gebeng near Kuantan.